Anyone use Eastwood's Liquid Chrome?

[ajmcforester]

I was look at some of the plastic chrome parts on my Z that need refreshing. The part is in good shape except the chrome is cracked or pealing. I knew about "Liquid Chrome" product and thought this might be a good way to get good results and not spend $500-$1,000 in replacing good parts or re-chroming plastic parts that won't last as long as the original coating do anyways.

I know over a wide surface area it more or less would not look right, however the parts I'm looking at don't have large areas of chrome, and have black painted surfaces. I was looking at using this for the chrome bars on the tail lights, the emblem on the glove box door, the bottom of the shift knob, the heater-control panel.

Has anyone tried this?

How well did it turn out?

(Pictures please)

Is this just a bad idea?

http://www.eastwood.com/ew-liquid-chrome.html

[spitz17]

I would be very curious to learn more about this product as well.

[cygnusx1]

I haven't tried the Eastwood kit but it looks awfully familiar. In the hobby world there is a paint system made by Spastix. It's a high gloss black base coat and then a chrome coat for a top coat. Both are in rattle cans. I tried it on a plastic spoon.

That is not a metal spoon. It is a white plastic cafeteria spoon with the paint on it. The spoon on the right was clear coated. Unfortunately, the coating is very fragile, and when I tried to topcoat with a clear, almost all of it's "chrome" look turned into a cast aluminum look.

Next I tried to just dip it in epoxy to cover up the chrome.

Better, but still not great.

It looks great at first, but it's fragile, and seems impossible to topcoat with a clear. In all fairness, this chrome is designed to be sprayed INSIDE a clear lexan body shell to create a chrome look from the outside.

Might be cool to make chrome headlight covers!

Edited November 30, 2010 by cygnusx1

[ajmcforester]

One thing I should have mentioned is that they have two different simulated chrome product at Eastwood so please let us know which one you used. One is "Liquid Chrome" and "Almost Chrome" They also have a powder-coat product that I'm not to interested in ( I don't want to back parts in my oven).

Dave I've seen the Almost Chrome product it looks just like the stuff you used

[cozye]

There is no spoon

[ChrisZ]

Check this out

Chris

[cygnusx1]

Check out alsacorp.com for some cool stuff.

[ajmcforester]

Check out alsacorp.com for some cool stuff.

I've seen this it work great, I might see if I can find a company that does this service. I don't think for my use that I can justify the $600 price tag for the cheap setup

[cozye]

Check out alsacorp.com for some cool stuff.

That is some very cool stuff. I'd love to get my hands on something that has been coated just to check it out.